Jan. 16, 2010
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EASTON, Pa. - In one of their most exciting games of the season, the Leopards capped off a brief, two-game homestand by handing conference foe Navy a 46-43 loss on Saturday afternoon.
It was a two-point game (45-43) with 27 seconds to play, but Navy wasted 14 seconds before fouling Melissa Downey. The sophomore proceeded to make one of her two free throw attempts and Navy's Cassie Consedine air-balled a three-point attempt at the seven-second mark to end the game.
Neither team led by more than six points and there were seven tied scores and six lead changes over the 40 minutes of action.
The Leopards (4-13, 2-1) were led in part by Sarah McGorry, whose 16 points marked a career-high as she went 6-of-11 from the field. Elizabeth Virgin (12) and LaKeisha Wright (11) joined her in double figures.
K.C. Gordon sank a three-pointer to make it 7-4 Navy after less than four minutes of action, the Mids' first lead of the game. Gordon went on to lead Navy (9-9, 1-2) with 13 points.
Wright sank two free throw attempts to hand an 8-7 advantage back to the Leopards before six unanswered Navy points made it 13-8 with 12:20 to play.
A Lafayette steal and dish to Virgin cut it to a four-point game (16-12). Seconds later, Amanda Leone's jumper put the Leopards right back in the game at 16-14 with five minutes to play in the first half.
The Mids briefly went up by three, but Wright converted two free throw attempts with 28.6 seconds on the clock to make it 19-18. Consedine sank two free throws of her own, however, to keep Navy up 21-18 at the midway point of the game.
The second half opened on a 5-2 Navy run but with 12:38 on the clock, McGorry made it a one-point game (29-28) with two free throws.
One minute later, Lafayette took its first lead since the 15:44 mark of the first half when Virgin's jumper made it 30-29.
Navy pulled ahead by four at several different points, but the Leopards prevented the Mids from taking a larger lead and Downey's layup knotted the score at 40-all with 3:30 to play.
Wright's free throws at the 1:50 mark put Lafayette back up by one (43-42). Navy's Megan Matheny missed the front end of a one-and-one with 1:06 on the clock, keeping the momentum squarely on the Leopards' side as they held on for the eventual 46-43 win.
Lafayette hits the road on Wednesday to face Bucknell at 7 p.m.
Postgame Notes:
- The Leopards have now won two straight against Navy, including last season's Patriot League semifinal victory.
- Lafayette shot 80 percent from the free throw line (12-15), the fourth time this season they have made 80 percent of their shots from the charity stripe.
- The Leopards' defense held junior guard Angela Myers to just four points, well below her season scoring average of 10.4 ppg.
